KYTHF

Nominate a Teacher

Teachers may be nominated and recommended by their individual school districts, fellow educators, or former students. The nomination packets should address the nominee’s impact on students and young people in Kentucky. Page limitations are strictly adhered to by the selection committee.

Eloise Hadden

Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame Inductee, 2013

A native of Raywood, Texas, Eloise W. Hadden taught Home Economics for 33 years in
Logan and Simpson counties.

She taught at Auburn High School from 1954 to 1982, Logan County High School from
1982 to 1985, Logan County High School Homebound Teacher from 1985 to 1987, and Martha
Layne Collins Pilot Project Career Ladder in Franklin in 1987. She received her bachelor’s
degree in 1956 from WKU.

Hadden, known as “Mrs. Auburn” for work in the Logan County community, wrote grants
to start the Auburn Historical Society and Auburn Museum and led the effort to get
136 homes and buildings in Auburn listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
She has served on the Auburn City Council and the Logan County Tourism Commission.

Her numerous awards and honors include Logan County’s “Teacher of The Year” and first-runner
up in the state competition in 1980, recipient of the 1995 Jefferson Award given by
WBKO-TV and Daily News for public service and volunteer work in South Central Kentucky
and WBKO’s “Hometown Hero” in 1999 for work with Auburn Library and Museum. Hadden
has received several awards from WKU’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences.